Ch. 635

1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(5)    A hearing held under this subsection shall be conducted in accordance with
Title 10, Subtitle 2 of the State Government Article.

(6)    At the hearing the insurer has the burden of proving its proposed action to be
justified and, in doing so, may rely only on the reasons set forth in its notice to the insured.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1997.

Approved May 22, 1997.

CHAPTER 635
(Senate Bill 903)

AN ACT concerning

General Assembly - Legislative Staff and Services - Reorganization and Duties

FOR the purpose of reorganizing the structure of the agencies providing staffing and
support services to the General Assembly; creating a Department of Legislative
Services; providing for the organization, general authority, and duties of the
Department; providing that the Department is headed by an Executive Director and
providing for the appointment, removal, and initial and on-going duties of the
Executive Director; specifying that the Legislative Auditor and the Office of
Legislative Audits are part of the Department of Legislative Services; altering the
time requirement within which the Office of Legislative Audits is required to
conduct fiscal/compliance audits; altering certain provisions of law relating to
required and authorized audits, the scope and place of audits, audit procedures and
reports, and confidentiality of audits; altering the name, membership, and duties of
the Joint Budget and Audit Committee of the General Assembly; repealing certain
provisions relating to the organization and duties of the Department of Fiscal
Services and the Department of Legislative Reference; recodifying existing
provisions relating to office space, equipment, and secretarial support for members
of the General Assembly, permanent part-time legislative employees, leaves of
absence for sessions of the General Assembly, status and credit for service of
employees of the General Assembly and the staff agencies, and the legislative
security force; making technical changes; specifying certain transitional provisions
relating to the implementation of the reorganization of legislative staffing agencies
required by this Act; and generally relating to the reorganization of staffing of the
General Assembly and the establishment of the Department of Legislative Services.

BY repealing

Article - State Government

Section 2-605; 2-1201 through 2-1207, and 2-1209 and the subtitle "Subtitle 12.
Staff and Services - Department of Fiscal Services"; 2-1301 through 2-1307
and 2-1315 through 2-1318 and the subtitle "Subtitle 13. Staff and Services -
Department of Legislative Reference"; 2-1408 through 2-1412 and the
subtitle designation "Subtitle 14. Staff and Services - Accounting, Security,

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